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Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American strategic bombing in World War II / Phil Haun.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Kentucky scholarship online.
- Kentucky scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bombing, Aerial.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 2019.
- Summary:
- In the 1930s the US Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS) articulated the concept of high-altitude daylight precision bombing (HADPB), a coherent yet controversial theory for victory through the independent employment of air forces. The ACTS lectures present a uniquely American theory of strategic bombing later tested in World War II. These lectures, never before published, introduce Air Corps thinking on strategic bombing during the interwar period. Their originality is found in the causal logic for how HADPB operations would lead to victory by the direct attack of vital and vulnerable economic targets.
- Contents:
- Air power and war
- An inquiry into the subject "War" by Harold George
- The objective of air warfare
- Air power and air warfare by Muir S. Fairchild
- Principles of war by Donald Wilson
- The aim in war by Haywood Hansell
- The bomber always gets through
- Driving home the bombardment attack by Kenneth Walker
- Tactical offense and tactical defense by Frederick Hopkins
- High-altitude daylight precision bombardment
- Practical bombing probabilities by Laurence Kuter
- Vital and vulnerable
- National economic structure by Muir S. Fairchild
- New York industrial area by Muir S. Fairchild
- What to target: the economy or military forces?
- Primary strategic objectives of Air Forces by Muir S. Fairchild
- High-altitude daylight precision bombing in World War II.
- Notes:
- "A Mitchell Institute book"--Colophon.
- Also issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 6, 2019).
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-7681-6
- 0-8131-7679-4
- 0-8131-7680-8
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